Oral history interview with Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, 1963 July 5 and 6.

Part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics oral history collection, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with circa 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Homi Bhabha, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Walter M. Elsasser, Enrico Fermi, Ralph Fowler, George Gamow, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Walter Heitler, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Lev Davidovich Landau, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Walther Nernst, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, H. Sch ler, J. Solomon, Otto Stern, George Eugn̈e Uhlenbeck, and B. L. van der Waerden.

Bhabha, Homi Jehangir, 1909-1966.

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.

Casimir, H. B. G. (Hendrik Brugt Gerhard), 1909-2000

Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984

Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.

Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1944.

Gamow, George, 1904-1968.

Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978

Heitler, Walter, 1904-

Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952.

Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968.

Lorentz, H. A. (Hendrik Antoon), 1853-1928.

Nernst, Walther, 1864-1941.

Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.

Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995

Planck, Max, 1858-1947.

Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937

Schuler, H.

Solomon, J.

Stern, Otto, 1888-1969-

Uhlenbeck, George Eugn̈e, 1900-1988

Waerden, B. L. van der (Bartel Leendert), 1903-

Atomic theory.

Nuclear physics.

Quantum theory.

Science -- History.

Oral histories. aat

Interviews. aat

Sound recordings lcgft

Transcripts. aat

Physicists -- Interviews. lcsh

Bohr, Aage Interviewer.

Kuhn, Thomas S. Interviewer.

R dinger, Erik, Interviewer.

AIP-ICOS

American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Archives for the History of Quantum Physics.